Review Digital Camera World 12-07-2013

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5 life-saving DIY hacks every photographer should know Dec 7th 2013, 00:01, by jmeyer There are so many smart inventions on the market to help you take great pictures, but instead of burning your savings on kit, you can make brilliant light modifiers out of standard household items and fashion accessories. In their latest guest post the photo management and Canon Project1709 experts at Photoventure offer a few clever ideas every photographer should know. There are so many smart inventions on the market to help you take great pictures, but instead of burning your savings on kit, you can make brilliant light modifiers out of standard household items and fashion accessories. Here are a few ideas; if you have others, let us know in the comments section. DIY Hack 1. Wrap and diffuse Bubble wrap shaped into a cone and placed on your flashgun can turn harsh, bright light into much softer flash for portraits, at a fraction of the cost of a commercially produced light modifier. DIY Hack 2. Reflect with foil Cooking foil has so many great uses that it ought to be a staple item in your home on par with toilet paper. For photography purposes, it makes an excellent reflector. Place it on the ground under drooping flowers and you can get beautifully sun-bounced macro pictures. DIY Hack 3. Shades of exposure Tinted sunglasses with a gradient colour can make a great alternative to a grad filter for landscape photography, helping you bring out the colour in the sky without underexposing the foreground. DIY Hack 4. Between the sheets A white pillowcase in front of a lamp can create a pretty, diffused light for your home studio. If you prefer natural light sources for indoor shoots, you can scale up your bedding hack and cover your window(s) with a white bedsheet to diffuse the light. DIY Hack 5. Filter chic Commercial filter systems are great, but sometimes you just want that slightly different effect that a .6 grad won’t give you. If you have a filter holder, try removing the filters it came with and instead suspend an old panty hose or a thin silk scarf on to it to get soft-focus portraits and dreamy, tinted landscapes. READ MORE 44 essential digital camera tips and tricks The 10 rules of photo composition (and why they work) 10 common camera mistake every photographer makes 15 common photography questions from beginners (and how to solve them) Famous Photographers: 225 tips to inspire you Save £50 on Rotolight's Creative Colour kit – the ultimate lighting solution (Sponsored) Dec 6th 2013, 10:09, by jmeyer Cameras are so good nowadays that photographers can take control of just about every element of a scene. But one thing your camera can’t control is the light you have to work with. Thankfully, Rotolight has the perfect solution. The family-run company has been making award-winning lighting kits from its home at Britain’s famed Pinewood Studios (an address it shares with Bond, James Bond), and the firm’s Creative Colour Kit represents the pinnacle of its innovation. Running simply on three AA batteries, the Rotolight RL48 LED lighting kit is a unique alternative to flash that connects easily to your DSLR, compact system camera or video camera, allowing you to capture beautiful exposures in any environment. In fact, so respected is the Rotolight RL48 it was recently used on set of the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, and in Tom Hanks’ latest movie, Captain Phillips. Rotolight Creative Colour Kit Features: The RL48 Ringlight delivers a 140º beam angle that reduces red eye and creates shadowless soft lighting, giving subjects a classic circular catch light Adjustable colour temperature via included filters allowing you to match to your ambient lighting and create a more natural-looking image Get more creative with the included 10 piece ‘Colour FX’ kit, providing filters for skin tone, backlight and hair-light effects Mount onto an accessory hot shoe, 1/4″ 20 lighting stand/tripod via the Rotolight stand mount included Kit fits into the included Accessory belt pouch – perfect for portability Ideal for portraiture, macro subjects and video interviews on location, or as a fill-in within the studio, the RL48 also just got significantly cheaper. The team at Rotolight is offering Digital Camera World readers a special offer on its Creative Colour Kit: while stocks last you can now get this fantastic lighting kit for £125 – £50 off its usual price of £175. Click here to find out more about the offer! Need more convincing? Watch this amazing clip of fashion photographer Manny Cabo using the Rotolight RL48′s ringlight during one of his shoots. Get social with Rotolight and find out more about their products and other offers on Facebook and Twitter.

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